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Facebook Is Still Letting Russia Interfere in Politics
Nicolae Fratea is on a mission to purge his Facebook timeline of weird political adverts. Every couple of days, he’s…
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Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City
Carla Francome campaigns for better cycling routes in Haringey, North London, where she moved a few years ago in search…
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Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots
On February 13, Twitter is expected to end free access to its API, or application programming interface, the backend access…
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Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Spain’s regional elections are still nearly four months away, but Irene Larraz and her team at Newtral are already braced…
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The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
One of the top concerns when it comes to the harms of social media and political polarization in the United…
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Twitter Is a Megaphone for ‘Sudden Death’ Vaccine Conspiracies
Graham led research in November and early December that found Covid misinformation surged on Twitter after the platform lifted its ban…
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The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress
“We met with all the platforms several times last year,” says Nina Santos, a researcher at the Brazilian National Institute…
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Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
In January 2021, after former US president Donald Trump tweeted in support of an insurrection on the Capitol, his account…
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A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside…
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Why Are People in the US Becoming Radicalized?
Extremist movements can make people feel significant, give them a sense of purpose, and provide them a narrative that explains…
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